Fox News Digital has recently dominated the online news space with stellar ratings during February. Last month’s news cycle was jam-packed with national headlines such as the East Palestine train derailment, the Chinese spy balloon controversy, and many other events that Fox News Digital covered.
Fox News reported on the recent success of its digital brand:
Last month, Fox News Digital finished No. 1 in multiplatform minutes for the 24th consecutive month, reaching a whopping 2.9 billion multiplatform minutes. That exceeded CNN.com’s 1.8 billion multiplatform minutes. Fox News Digital also placed first in multiplatform views for the fifth consecutive month, reaching 1.7 billion multiplatform views. Fox News Digital was also No. 1 in average views per visit among competitors, averaging 2.3 views from readers per visit, as it continued to drive the national conversation.
Meanwhile, CNN.com came in third place with 1.2 billion multiplatform viewers behind NYTimes.com, which eked out a narrow lead over the embattled network. The Fox News Mobile App also led CNN Mobile App in unique visitors for the second consecutive month, reaching 6.4 million versus CNN’s 5.2 million.
As highlighted, Fox News has a competitive brand across all its platforms, including dominance in the cable news market, online, social media, and more. Business Wire further reported on Fox New’s success:
FOX News remained the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in January, with 30.7 million total social interactions, notching the 101st consecutive month FOX News has placed on top, according to Emplifi. FOX News drove 8.5 million interactions on Facebook, 18.8 million Instagram interactions and 3.5 million Twitter interactions. On YouTube, FOX News secured the top spot among news brands in video views for the 24th month in a row with over 217.5 million according to Shareablee.
FOXBusiness.com drove 148 million multiplatform views, surpassing CNN Business for the 10th consecutive month. Additionally, the business network delivered over 247 million multiplatform minutes (+11% versus the prior year) and 26.1 million multiplatform unique visitors (+11% versus the prior year).*** FOX Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most viewed among the business news competitive set for the 14th straight month, driving 42.3 million views in January according to Shareablee.
In 2022 Fox News Channel also made history by hitting many impressive milestones with its ratings. Like its online digital brand, the cable news segment has been crushing leftist competitors like CNN and MSNBC. Fox News Media relations commented:
FOX News Channel (FNC) notched its seventh year as leader in all of cable television while delivering the third highest-rated year ever in cable news history for 2022 in total day viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. The network’s programs continued to break new ratings records throughout the year, resulting in FNC continuing as the number one cable network in primetime and total day in viewers in basic cable for the seventh consecutive year and the highest-rated cable news network for the 21st straight year.
FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott praised her company’s success in 2022, stating, “I am immensely proud of this landmark achievement as it is a testament to the dedicated teams across FOX News Channel, who are the backbone in making us number one for 20 consecutive years with the most loyal and politically diverse audience in cable news.”
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